FWIW - this picture has been floating around since the mid 2000’s; the person who blogged about it cooked it super wrong. The instructions said to use a bain marie, and they didnt know what a bain marie, but saw you boiled water in it, so they just boiled the can. If you boil a can, water is 100% going to seep into it, and turn it into…what you see here.
Wait are these cans not watertight?
They are in the same way any canned good is. If you boil it, the can is likely to warp slightly and allow water in, also things like plastic liners and other chemicals can leech into your food, you generally aren’t supposed to cook food inside the cans they come in.
Canned food is literally pasteurized in said can, while submerged in water at temperatures slightly lower than 100 °C. The whole reason to put food in cans is to create an airtight atmosphere that can be thermally treated with hot water. This kills certain spores (mainly botulinum) which is why canned food has a very long shelf life.
It’s still not correct to cook the food that way, but not because of the reason you made up.
Boiling a can can absolutely open up a can. Pasteurizing happens below boiling point and for much shorter time, not enough time to change the pressure inside the can.
Boiling it for a long time can evaporate liquids and cause the pressure to build up and split a can open or warp it enough to open. It’s enough of a concern that condensed milk generally ships with a warning because of it.
Note that it won’t generally be the giant pop/explosion of cooking a can directly in flames.
In fact, cans of condensed milk specifically bursting when boiling was a big enough concern a few years ago because of a tiktok trend making caramel that way that there articles and videos of people fuckin it up
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/style/why-cautious-making-caramel-canned-131502700.html
Ok so wtf is a bain marie?
It’s a lower pot that you boil water in with an upper pot that you put the food in. No water gets near the food, it’s meant for applying even, indirect heat
I think that context just graduates the food crime from second degree to first degree
no…this just cannot be real
You can get a lot of things in a can.
Pasta. Meat. Cheeseburgers.
Whole chicken.
Whole chicken you say?
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It’s a risky business model, going all in on catering to the post-apocalypse last-resort pre-cat-food desperate survival market.
I’ve had these, and they are actually pretty good. But you will burn your tounge. Badly.
I’m starting to suspect Dr. Oetker’s credentials may not be real…
No, it’s real. He got an actual doctorate and a specific patent on baking powder.
I didn’t come here to learn something!
I will not hear a single bad thing about these. They were a gift of the gods and were only removed to punish humanities sinfull nature.
Repent, I say. REPENT!
It doesn’t look any worse than an AM/PM burger.
Dear God, almost like comparing left testicular torsion to right testicular torsion lol… both are terrible and borderline prison food.
Pretty sure Ashens covered Trekking food in an old video on yt.
I’ve noticed Ashens is kind of winding down, release schedule is basically just the holidays now, has he announced anything? Retiring etc?
I think he’s making another movie.
after Polybius Heist?
Yeah, he making a horror film - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ashens/turn-back-a-folk-horror-film-told-in-reverse
Haven’t heard anything about retiring yet. I think part of it is a lot of the pound shops he depended on for tat have gone away. On top of that, after all these years I would guess that he is running out of novel junk from his collection to talk about. He’s also been working on his feature films too, which may be more rewarding to him in the long run than reviewing wonky toys and terrible food.
I’m cool with him slowing down as long as he’s enjoying himself.
I think he is running out of stuff a bit, yes. IMO he should open his PO Box back up. though the more spaced out releases do make it easier to post new videos in [email protected] “on time” (quotes because it’s not really as on time as you’d think)
